Petition

[crisaor]

With the last one, I must be the member whose posts have cancelled more threads in the entire forum (a title I'm not happy to hold), and practically all of them in the George Orwell board, where I believe there should be a little more liberty with this kind of issues, specially because one gets carried away easily and forgets about the no politics thing. I'll omit the fact that I do tend to get political (in a good way) when debating some issues, and that probably more than half those threads were "accurately" closed considering the rules of the forum (which I won't discuss, because I accept them, even if doesn't seem that way sometimes), and that's because I'm admitting it. However, I'd like to ask if first there could be a warning post in such threads, as in redirecting the conversation towards allowed discussion instead of just closing it.

[subterranean]

Well Cris..what the forum rules say about this..? i notice there's always forum rules in every section of the forum..and honestly since the first time i got here, i havent read it..

[Koa]

Actually I thought it was my fault for the closing of the thread about the soviet book orwhateveritwas, since it was me that correcting ravana started to talk about current politics...And as the replies went on I felt that we might be going on the forbidden path, but I said to myself that after all we were discussing communism as an ideology, not just politically... I think in this case the border was quite subtle, but I don't question Admin's choice as, as I might have said before, I totally agree about excluding politics from the forums to avoid things to get tense.

Though actually crisaor does have a point, a warning could be a good thing... Maybe there's a risk that it'll be useless (but then the solution of closing is there to be used), but in that particular case I think that all the people involved in the conversation would have just shut up, cos it was mainly people that have been on the forum a while and know the rules, and certainly never tried to be troublemakers.

[emily655321]

I forgot to watch out for getting political on that thread. Looking at the posts, I thought it might have been me who went too far, and I actually was about to post a quick apology when I noticed the thread was locked. I agree a warning in that case would be good -- but if people are really interested, they can always start a new thread to continue it... (the original discussion, that is)

[subterranean]

well it's a little bit impossible to stay away from the political path when we are discussing book like 1984 or animal farm. How to determine what sort of political conversations are allowed? Still makes me wonder (though it already been discuss in some thread) that we are allow to have debates about religions, but not about politics.

[Koa]

I never realised this...(religion yes, politics no), but well... I don't know, I think personally I tend to be more respectful about religion, or just avoid answering, or just don't look at that forum... While with politics I get more angry and I'd keep discussing on and on and on...

[Admin]

Normally a warning would be fine, but since the thread was also no longer about Orwell it was off topic as well.

[Stanislaw]

I agree with admin, ifit gets political warning, but lets try an keep at least in the same continaent as the original idea, we as a group are fairly scatter brained. In an einstein sorta way